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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Unidentified Tracks, Sign, and Other Mysteries » Unidentified Leaf Mines

Unidentified Leaf Mines

Classification · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Cherry Hill leaf miner on Robinia NJ1 2016 4 St. Andrews leaf miner on Rhynchospora perplexa SA512 2016 1 Green Cay leaf miner maybe on Ilex coriacea D1285 2018 2 Pelham Road leaf miner maybe on Prunus serotina D1758 2019 6 Boone leaf miner on Ageratina altissima D2678 2020 1.1 54 and Barbee leaf miner on Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani D3326 2021 3 Pelham road leaf miner Ophiomyia on Lactuca canadensis D4578 2023 1 Seacrest scrub leaf miner on Poaceae unknown D4759 2023 3
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
No Taxon (Unidentified Tracks, Sign, and Other Mysteries)
No Taxon Unidentified Leaf Mines
Remarks
This section is the home of unidentified leaf mines, which may have been made by the larvae of moths, flies, beetles, or sawflies. Knowing the host plant is extremely helpful, and in most cases essential, to identifying the miner.
Print References
(1)(2)(3)
Internet References
Great information and images of Illinois moth mines at microleps.org
Mines of British Flies and Other Insects (not North American, but much of the information is transferable)
Leafminers and plant galls of Europe (ditto)
BugTracks (Charley Eiseman's blog posts about leafminers)
How to rear leafminers
Works Cited
1.Leafminers of North America
Charley Eiseman. 2018.
2.Leaf-mining Insects
Needham, James G., Stuart W. Frost, and Beatrice H. Tothill. 1928. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore.
3.Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates
Charley Eiseman & Noah Charney. 2010. Stackpole Books.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 29 March, 2006 - 1:43pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 7 April, 2018 - 9:33am

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